Giyug language

Giyug
Kiyuk
(unattested)
Native toAustralia
RegionDaly River; Anson Bay, Peron Islands, southwest of Darwin.
Extinctby 1920s
2 (1981)
unclassified (Wagaydyic?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3giy
Glottologgiyu1238
AIATSISN226
ELPGiyug

Giyug is an extinct and unattested Australian Aboriginal language. It may (or may not) have been close to Wagaydy—perhaps a dialect—but is otherwise unknown. According to Ian Green, it went extinct before the 1920s.